After putting it out of my mind for eight years, I completed my first novel, Beyond the Blue—a literary story about love, loss, discovery, buddies, and baseball—in the early fall of 2015. Beyond the Blue answers questions not only about protagonist Mark Watt's life, but redefines the common and complex in unexpected fashion—redefining even time itself. I've temporarily halted seeking an appropriate publisher for Beyond the Blue while I write and publish short stories both on my blog Rolling the Stone and hopefully in many periodicals while also releasing my second novel, Lightning Strikes Twice, via Channillo.

ArtAscentpublished my short story "
Well Enough," which can be reado n pages 52-3, in its December 2015 "Haunting issue.

Satan fell like “lightning from heaven.” Many believed this explanation for how Altus Bonum manipulated guitar strings with otherworldly energies invoking images of Robert Johnson’s Crossroads. He wrote lyrics debated like those of The Lizard King and said his name arrived nocturnally. He also stated “as said before, ‘many will hear but not understand.'”

Rumors persisted Altus was a mirrored acronym for Satanists United to Trample as Lucifer’s Angels. People who played his music backward at chimerical speeds reported hearing perversities spewed from deep space. Those same people saw anarchy, a pitchfork, and the Kundalini Serpent in his autographs while others saw an ichthys, a cross, and a three.

Beneath a falling star, witnesses outside a club heard Bonum thunderously proclaim, “Light falls again to bless my unworthy presence.” Bonum dropped to his knees and appeared to sleep where 23rd intersected Stephen before six sleeveless men crushed his skull with bricks. Seven people independently reported hearing doves cry while a man named Tracy swore he saw snowflakes on a warm night in April.